How to make ng-repeat filter out duplicate results

Question

I\'m running a simple ng-repeat over a JSON file and want to get category names. There are about 100 objects, each belonging to a category - but there are only

Answer 1

If you want to list categories, I think you should explicitly state your intention in the view.

  
    {{category}}
  

in the controller:

$scope.categories = $scope.places.reduce(function(sum, place) {
  if (sum.indexOf( place.category ) < 0) sum.push( place.category );
  return sum;
}, []);